The breeze had reached the Esmeralda by the time that the gig arrived alongside, and the dainty little barque was lying to with her mainyard aback, waiting for us.
Her mizzen-mast had gone by the board, her mainyard had been shot from the slings, and a momentary confusion reigned on her decks.
The mainyard of the Serapis hung cock-a-bill over the Bon Homme Richard's poop.
So canted was she that her mainyard dipped one of its steel sickles into the glassy water, and, had her foremast remained, or more than the broken stump of her bonaventure mizzen, she must have turned over completely.
Many days ago they had stripped the mainyard of its course, and had passed the sail under the Mary's bottom, in the hope that it would stop the leak.
And Peter Cortright and Marmaduke Flyn, they was both on themainyard reefin' alongside.
Peter Cortright and Marmaduke Flyn they was both on the mainyard reefin', alongside o' my daddy, and Job Collins he was aft by the binnacle.
There was not a soul on deck to interfere with us, or to demand our business; and the first thing we did was to put the helm hard over and lay the mainyard aback as she came to the wind.
Main-geers; an assemblage of tackles coming down to the deck at the main mast, by which the mainyard was hoisted or lowered in ships of that time.
The foremast was nearly cut in half by the carronade shot of her antagonist; her mainyard was badly wounded, and her wheel knocked to atoms, which obliged them to steer on the lower deck.
This done, Captain Martin swung his mainyard and made sail, and we followed suit as quickly as we could.
The ship was headed toward them, and when within half a mile the mainyard was backed, and three boats, under the charge of the captain and the first and second mates, respectively, were lowered.
As soon as the wrecked boat was run up to the davits, the mate swung the mainyard and got under way, following the other boats.
We had one or two breakdowns, between that and the Channel, and on one occasion I remember hoisting the mainyard by the passengers only, the inducement to help being that if we did not hurry up they would not see the Derby.
A man does not often shoot away the mainyard of his friend on purpose.
Girdlestone groaned as he saw the mainyardswing back.
He at once ordered the mainyard to be hauled back and awaited their arrival.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mainyard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
